on RB Domanick Davis’ knee) “The good news is, for the first time in about a week, Domanick and I have had a conversation, and he said ‘coach, I’m feeling better.’ I know he did actually run a little bit in the past 48 hours, and that’s encouraging. The key is his mindset, he’s been through this befor. As I’ve told you all along, we’re going to be patient; we know he can play the game. We just have to know that we’re going to get there at some point. We’ll keep our fingers crossed, and hopefully it’ll work out.”
(on how much work Domanick will be able to handle when he comes back) “Well, you’d like to have a lot, that’s just part of football. It’s hard to go out and play without the work. With his situation, we have to do what’s right. We want to get something out of this year. We have to do what we have to do to get him to that point, and we’re not going to hurt him in the preseason because I think he needs the extra reps. We’re going to be smart with that. If Domanick is full strength for this football team, be it in week four, week five or week six he’s going to help this football team win, so we have to be smart with that.”
(on running out of patience with him) “You try not to run out of patience because you have situations like that all the time. They tend to work themselves out, but the one thing that remains constant is that you’re working with them everyday so they can be there on game day, so you’re going to have to make sure you’re getting them ready to play. That’s our focus, and (Head Athletic Trainer) Kevin (Bastin) will do a great job with Domanick and let us know when he’s ready to go, but we have to get these guys out there ready to play.”
(on Domanick needing reps during the preseason) “I don’t want to answer that right now. I think that would be hard, that would be very hard to do. I think he’d tell you the same thing. I don’t know, stranger things have happened. Let’s wait and see.”
